The city of Dnepropetrovsk (Dnipropetrovs’k in Ukrainian) is situated on the river Dnieper (Dnepr or Dnipro) in the Central Ukraine.
Population ~ 1.2 million.
Large and beautiful, it is the main city of Central-East Ukraine.
This constant fortress settlement has existed since the middle of the 16th century.
The new town was founded in 1776 by the Russian duke, Potemkin by order of Catherine II, Empress of the Russian
Empire and called Yekaterinoslav from 1776 to 1926. During 1918 the town’s name was Sicheslav (The Glory for Sich’/Fortress of Cossacks).
Dnepropetrovsk has been the major center of the steel industry from the beginning of the 20th century until the present.
It has also been dominant in the spacebuilding industry since the 1950s. Today the city is the main trade and industrial
center of East Ukraine. There are 11 universities, academies and institutes in Dnepropetrovsk.
Construction of the Metro (underground, subway) was completed in late 1995. International airport (direct lines from Vienna,
Frankfurt on Maine, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Moscow etc.